Famadewa, Ribadu and the 90-day security plan: Unpacking Onanuga’s release
When the Presidential Spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, announced that President Bola Tinubu had constituted an eleven‑man committee to develop a National Threat Assessment and a Strategic Defence Operations Plan within ninety days, with about four months to the general elections, several things struck me even before I reached the substance of the directive.
Anambra: Offodile’s tirades(2)
BUT for Governor Obi, flood would have washed the entire Awka away. It was a former Governor that blocked the Iyiagu flood channel and sold all the land there, and people had started building skyscrapers there before Governor Obi’s intervention.
PIB and Alison-Madueke’s midas touch
EQUALLY interesting is the fact that NNPC is to be unbundled into three companies – National Oil Company, National Petroleum Assets Management Corporation and National Gas Company.
Learning from America’s Democratic challenges
ON July 4, 1776, thirteen British colonies made a Declaration of Independence that established the United States of America as a free and democratic nation.
Anambra: Offodile’s tirades
I READ with disappointment the position of my brother, Hon. Chudi Offodile over the situation of things in Awka vis-à-vis the Government of Mr. Peter Obi. It is in bad taste when some of our people deliberately chose to distort information. Is it a case of short sightedness or plain mischief?
Nnaji as a change agent
BEFORE me on my table as I am writing this short essay is a couple of media reports on the signing on July 4 , 2012, of a Memorandum of Understanding, MOU, between the Ministry of Power and Daewoo Construction and Electrical on ways Daewoo could help generate 10,000MW in Nigeria, with the South Korean engineering giant taking up 20 per cent equity in new plants.
